Example sentences of "[vb infin] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether that was true is hard to say ; but the principle must surely be right that when people could profit by doing so , they accepted the benefits of government . |
| 2 | Andrewes would commence by reading out his text both in the English of the Genevan Bible and in the Latin of the Vulgate and would never lose sight of it , frequently repeating it throughout the sermon . |
| 3 | They 've developed a method to help putt by pulling back the club every inch for every foot . |
| 4 | He added that the government was also helping local businesses to expand and invest by cutting down on red tape : ‘ If people in business try to expand it is very , very bureaucratic and government approval is needed for most projects . ’ |
| 5 | It can borrow by issuing either gilt-edged securities ( government bonds ) or Treasury bills . |
| 6 | I will finish by looking back — which , at my age , I do far too often . |
| 7 | First I went to find the boy 's father and told him , ‘ There 's nothing you can do by staying here . |
| 8 | And a very good example , if you put these two together just to see what you can do by moving round to a different viewpoint . |
| 9 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 10 | ‘ It was hard to believe the change you could see by moving just a couple of kilometres out of West Germany , one of the richest countries in the world . ’ |
| 11 | The argument I shall advance , surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters , is that , for an understanding of the evolution of modern man , we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution . |
| 12 | We may begin by looking closely at religious and philosophical beliefs which , at first glance , seem particularly remote and baffling , and to many simply ridiculous . |
| 13 | Let me begin by stating more fully the view I have already intimated , that political activities — that is to say , struggles for power among individuals and groups in relation to their own interests and to the general regulation and orientation of collective life — occur in every human society . |
| 14 | 10–30 per cent overweight and not as fit as you should be If you are between 10 and 30 per cent overweight , and similarly you get puffed out easily , do little or no exercise , and consider yourself unfit , you too should begin by exercising gently . |
| 15 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 16 | Lord Mayor , may I begin by congratulating so many from the majority group for taking the time to attend today 's Council meeting . |
| 17 | On receiving a referral a social worker can usefully begin by setting out answers to these questions : |
| 18 | Let us begin by considering why we want to think of God in personal terms at all . |
| 19 | Let us begin by considering how we might obtain a random sample ; that is , one in which each member of the population has the same chance of being chosen . |
| 20 | Let us begin by considering how one might analyse the attitudinal function of intonation . |
| 21 | To investigate this kind of holism , then , I shall begin by laying out the most relevant portions of Althusser 's theory . |
| 22 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 23 | Rather we should begin by asking why we have a distinction between public and private law . |
| 24 | But , given a subject , a place , a community , a way of life , that you find actively interesting , then you should begin by brooding over its possibilities . |
| 25 | It would be odd indeed if they did not celebrate by spending more and saving less . |
| 26 | She wanted to have some measure of control over her own productivity — which she could exercise by walking more quickly or slowly . |
| 27 | Do you react by becoming rather subdued and leaving the protagonists to fight it out ? |
| 28 | I would conclude by returning briefly to the Marleasing judgment . |
| 29 | It can be predicted from the low binding specificity of the 140k DNA binding domain , that the intact 140k protein would have a low promoter selectivity ; 140k could perhaps function by activating sub-optimally utilized RNA polymerase II promoters in a similar manner to that previously suggested for the homologous PRV IE180 protein ( 38 ) . |
| 30 | It is essential , for instance , that environmental standards for industry are set at a European level so that companies do not compete by seeking out those locations with inadequate environmental protection . |